Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clifton Chenier performs at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on May 4, 1983. (Credit: David Redfern/Redferns) Joel Savoy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chenier in 1984. The zydeco pioneer would have turned 100 this year. - Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images A few months ago, Joel ...

Jourdan Thibodeaux, who has been hailed as the future of Cajun music, will perform today and Saturday at The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua. Courtesy photo The CBS News show “60 Minutes” recently ...

101 Please Don't Leave Me / Thunders (Musical group), Fernest Arceneaux. Accordion,Guitar. English language 102 Persone Pole Danse Avec Moin / Thunders (Musical group), Fernest Arceneaux.

It didn’t take a lot to get the crowd at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival's Fais Do-Do Stage to start moving. Almost from the first notes, people were bouncing, and a few couples began dancing ...

1 Zydeco et Pas Sale Chenier 3:16 2 Lafayette Waltz Chenier 4:35 3 Louisiana Two-Step Chenier 3:48 4 Clifton's Waltz Chenier 4:16 5 Louisiana Blues Chenier 5:01 6 Hot Rod Chenier 3:27 7 Banana Man ...

Joel Savoy doesn’t remember exactly when he first heard the music of Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco—the electrified and electrifying mix of Louisiana Creole music and hard-hitting blues—who was ...

A few months ago, Joel Savoy, the Louisiana Cajun musician and label owner, was at a local pressing plant looking over the cover art for a just-finished tribute album to zydeco legend Clifton Chenier.

Even in those boisterous sessions, Chenier’s accordion-forward blues and Louisiana French vocals made a big impression. Berlin remembers very clearly getting to see Chenier a few years later when he ...